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As a high school student, Xavier Mason kept to himself. At UAA, however, he has excelled in academics, immersed himself in the tasks involved in becoming a leader and social entrepreneur and will deliver the student speech at the upcoming 2015 Spring Commencement.

The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE), UAA’s faculty development center, recently announced its COW (CAFE Oh Wow!) Faculty Development Awards for 2015.

Spring is a time for fresh growth and renewal, both in the community and here at UAA, where students share their scholarly and artistic creations during the Student Showcase and Undergraduate Research & Discovery Symposium.

Crystal Lemieux cried after moving from her coastal hometown to attend college in Anchorage. Six years later, she's living a life she created that's rich with possibility and experiences she will carry with her after she graduates.

With so much to see—and so few roads to get you there—bush flying is a necessary industry in Alaska. UAA's elective course 'Flying the Alaska Bush' provides interested aviators the know-how to land safely on glaciers, riverbeds, beaches and fields (and, just as importantly, how to take off again).

The world-ranked Seawolf Debaters will field seven pairs at this year's national debate tournament, the US Universities Debating Championship, hosted right here in Anchorage April 11–13. Cheer on the home team as they face off against nearly 200 teams from across the continent for the national debate crown.

A legislative internship in Juneau is nothing if not a big dose of real-world political and work life. Check in with German Baquero.

UAA's Justice for Fraud Victims Project helps people find out if someone is defrauding them, what happened and how they can prevent fraud from happening again, all while offering students valuable real-world accounting experience.

When she's not in science classes, this UAA senior spends her hours volunteering and scribing at Providence and in UAA's simulation lab, co-helming UAA's ASMA chapter and doing cancer research. Meet Rachel Shercliffe.

New UAA Provost Samuel Gingerich likes to hike, catch fish, listen to The Band and muse deeply on how higher education is evolving in the 21st century.